Sep 25 2009
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The concept that the “simpler the form of a letter the simpler its reading” was an obsession of beginning constructivism. It became something like a dogma, and is still followed by modernistic typographers. This notion has proved to be wrong, because in reading we do not read letters but words, words as a whole, as a “word picture.”
(Why this suddenly makes macro and micro information so clear to me all of a sudden.. I have no idea).
Josef Albers, Interaction of Color